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This is the view from Poole Bridge. The Nissen hut on the left has today given way to a building occupied by the Lifeboat Station and Dorset Police Marine Section.

The village of Portloe (meaning 'bay with pool') is one of Cornwall's best-kept secrets - a tiny, rocky fishing cove with narrow streets and the fine 17th-century Lugger Inn.

Poole's Cavern has been a major tourist attraction ever since Mary Queen of Scots visited it during her incarceration here in the 16th century.

The view is of Sandbanks Ferry from Shell Bay looking towards Poole's sandy peninsula. The chain ferry began in 1926, saving 15 miles on the journey to Swanage.

Further downstream, weir pools have became the haunt for barbel, which were introduced into the river in the 1960s.

Formerly, it was a sea mill: the tide entered the pool, now ornamental, above it and then drained back down again. The building is now much altered in appearance.

The breakwater timbers have a worn look about them, but they still served their purpose, and formed little pools for baby crabs to hide in. Children enjoyed catching them until a big one appeared!

Canford Bridge has three arches of Portland stone over a languid length of the River Stour, and carries the road from Wimborne to Poole.

A woman waits patiently against the fence by the pond; she has just come from the swimming pool area.

Less than a century ago, sailing ships still dominate the quays at Poole. Ships' chandlers and coal merchants line the waterside, and a coal cart stands idle at the side of the road.

On the right are Barclay's Bank, Merchant's, haberdashers, the post office, Bell, the Co-op (with dome), and Poole's, furnishers.

The open-air bathing pool was a new attraction, opened in time for the long hot summer of 1914.

This sylvan path winds down from the castle inner bailey towards Park Lodge, and then through the Roman wall to more open parkland with the boating pool and the River Colne.

The 1950s boating pool shelter still stands and the boats remain, still paddle boats.

The pool is an obvious source of enjoyment and pleasure for the mothers and children of the New Town in this summer scene.

When this photograph was taken from the end of the quay, the bridge linking Poole town and Hamworthy was only four years old.

The River Piddle winds beneath the chalk downlands of Dorset, giving its name to several villages along the way before reaching the sea at Poole Harbour.

Centuries ago, an arm of the sea came up to Wareham from what is now Poole Harbour.

The majesty of Lincoln Cathedral is seen from Brayford Pool. This is where the (un-navigable) river Witham and the Roman-built Fossdyke Canal joined.

The shop sold postcards, and displays model yachts in the doorway for sailing on one of the pools on the beach.

By 1972 a swimming pool had opened at Edisford.

She was the 'Waterwitch', built at Poole in 1871 as a collier-brig, but converted to barquentine-rig in the 1880s. Owned by Edward Stephens, she made her last passage with cargo in 1936.

The zig-zag roof now covers a swimming pool, and the displaced bar is in a new part of the extended building. To the right behind the car is the Miniature Zoo.

Families would often hire deckchairs to sit and picnic beside the pool. Many of the well-known shops of the area face the sea.